Staying Ahead at the FIRST Robotics Competition
After winning Boston's FIRST regionals in 2007, high school robotics team the NU-TRONS went on to compete in
this year's FIRST Robotics Competition in Atlanta, GA. Co-Captain John Larkin talks about how the team prepared
for the challenge.

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Dates:
4/4/2008 - 4/20/2008
Location:
Fort Worth, TX and Marietta, GA

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4/10/2008 - 4/13/2008
Location:
Fontana, CA

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4/17/2008 - 4/19/2008
Location:
Atlanta, GA

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4/30/2008 - 10/24/2008
Location:
New York, NY

Dates:
5/1/2008 - 6/14/2008
Location:
Tennessee, Illinois, Montreal

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5/17/2008 - 5/17/2008
Location:
Great Meadow, The Plains, VA

Dates:
5/24/2008 - 5/27/2008
Location:
Pittsburgh, PA

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6/1/2008 - 6/2/2008
Location:
Boston, MA

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6/5/2008 - 6/6/2008
Location:
Marshall, MI

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7/6/2008 - 7/23/2008
Location:
Dallas, TX
More Events
Applanix's Louis Nastro explains how the company's orientation systems helped DARPA Urban Challenge teams achieve positioning accuracies down to
just a few centimeters.
FIRST Robotics Competition Director Bill Miller talks about how intense the competition is at the FIRST Competition Championship.

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